
Age 28. 4 Churchill Road, Winchester, MA. Born (as Pauline E. Snow) in 1914, in Boston. Died of carbon monoxide poisoning (death certificate). Housewife (death certificate). To the Grove with her husband Lee, age 27, also Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Gladys Charles, ages 27 and 29 respectively, of Winchester, and Mrs. Edith Vucassovich, age 41, of Beverly, MA, all dead. The latter's husband, Michel P., age 61, was out of state on business and was not present. Her remains were identified Sunday afternoon at Southern Mortuary, Boston. Was raised in Boston. Was a graduate of the Museum School of Art, Boston. Married on 1/27/1939, in Norfolk, VA. Was previously divorced, first husband Verne M. Brackett, married in 1933, in Berwick, ME. Parents Mr. Joseph L. (a former Boston police sergeant) and the late Mrs. Annie S. (Holmes) Snow. Her father (with his wife) retired to St. Petersburg, FL, six years earlier. St. Petersburg Times, 12/01/1942: "Snow...stated that he had tried numerous times to have the Cocoanut Grove night club condemned as unsafe, but that he had never accomplished that objective." Her father died on 5/18/1943 (St. Petersburg Times, 5/23/1943: "Mr. Snow's wife passed away just a little more than a year ago, and his daughter and son-in-law...were both victims of the Boston Cocoanut Grove fire..."). With her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Charles were four of nine Grove victims from the Middlesex County Hub suburb of Winchester (also Miss Marion Ambrose, age 21, Joseph Dineen, age 23, Wilbur Meserve, age 25, Miss Helen M. Welch, age 21, and Miss Katherine Woods, age 22, all patrons). Cremation of her remains with those of her husband at Mount Auburn Crematory, Cambridge, MA. Burial site for either (if any) unknown. Middle name Snow.